St. Martin's Island (Bengali: সেন্ট মার্টিন্স দ্বীপ) is a small island (area only 8 km2) in the
northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh. There is a small adjoining island that is
separated at high tide, called Chera Dwip. It is about 8 kilometres (5 miles) west of the
northwest coast of Myanmar, at the mouth of the Naf River.
The first settlement started 250 years ago by Arabian
sailors who named the island 'Zajira'. During British occupation the island was named St. Martin
Island. During the First Anglo-Burmese Warbetween the British and Burmese empires
in 1824–1826, rival claims to the island were a major factor. The local names
of the island are "Narical Gingira", also spelled "Narikel
Jinjira/Jinjera", which means 'Coconut Island' in Bengali, and "Daruchini Dwip". It is the only coral island in Bangladesh.
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